http://chronicle.com/section/The-Chronicle-Review/41/ Opinion & Ideas :: The Chronicle Review Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:12:31 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130701/ http://chronicle.com/article/Death-by-Rose-Petals/130701/ Meet the naughtiest Roman emperor you've never heard of.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130702/ http://chronicle.com/article/In-Praise-of-Reference-Book/130702/ A tribute to lexicographers and others who classify life's minutiae.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130706/ http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-Been-Lost-in-History/130706/ By focusing narrowly on educating more professors, the field has relinquished its influence on civic life.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130705/ http://chronicle.com/article/Reclaiming-a-Sense-of-the/130705/ A writer contemplates religion, science, art, and the miraculous.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130708/ http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-So-Funny-About-9-11-/130708/ A new book sizes up our capacity to face horror with a grim chuckle.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130704/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/ The author has written two books about the Haymarket riot and trial. In some circles, that affords a presumption of expertise. Not, however, on Wikipedia.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130611/ http://chronicle.com/article/Theorythe-Novel/130611/ Do novelists really want to "rework" poststructuralist theory? Or do they just want to tell excellent stories?

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130612/ http://chronicle.com/article/Little-Boy-Blue-and-Little/130612/ Parents haven't always color-coded their offspring by gender, according to a new book on the history of children's clothing.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130615/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tools-for-Living/130615/ Increasingly, students see the value in not just a sophisticated understanding of the world's problems but also the practical know-how to find sustainable solutions.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130613/ http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-News-Literacy-in-the/130613/ If the Facebook and Twitter era has made everyone a journalist, let's make everyone a better journalist.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130616/ http://chronicle.com/article/Just-Doing-It/130616/ The inestimable value of being in the moment, whether in upward dog or in the classroom.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130614/ http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Abroad-A-Cautionary/130614/ A traveling scholar displays his, um, sophistication.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130495/ http://chronicle.com/article/Graph-Where-Do-You-Fall-on/130495/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:24:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130450/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Political-Defector/130450/ Jonathan Haidt called for affirmative action to make the field of social psychology 10 percent conservative by 2020

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130453/ http://chronicle.com/article/Jonathan-Haidt-Decodes-the/130453/ Liberals would be well served, says Jonathan Haidt, to wise up about conservatives’ gut feelings.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130452/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Accordion-Family/130452/ As more adult children in the developed world live at home, what is happening to family life?

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130451/ http://chronicle.com/article/Copyright-Goes-Philosophical/130451/ The debate over intellectual property transcends the law—and requires philosophy.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130449/ http://chronicle.com/article/Remembering-a-Golden-Age-of/130449/ A writer recalls the magical world he discovered as a boy, which remains with him still.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130454/ http://chronicle.com/article/Choosing-What-Americans-Choose/130454/ Two new books on how niche marketing and other forces circumscribe our lives.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130456/ http://chronicle.com/article/I-Caught-the-Darkness-Baby/130456/ Leonard Cohen’s new album and 20th-century poetry acquaint students with the night.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130435/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-IntegrityIgnominy-of/130435/ The venerated football coach's response to allegations of child sex abuse showed a kind of self-willed ignorance, the same kind we all share.

]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130382/ http://chronicle.com/article/Journalism-Education-in-the/130382/ An American professor sees what it takes to get the story in a war zone.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130385/ http://chronicle.com/article/Beauty-Power-Truth/130385/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130381/ http://chronicle.com/article/Siege-of-the-Iliad/130381/ Great Zeus! Why so many translations?

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130383/ http://chronicle.com/article/Upside-of-the-Downturn/130383/ Reduced expectations for our material success might make us happier, even if we’re poorer.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130387/ http://chronicle.com/article/Parent-Child-Conflict-Its-in/130387/ Evolutionary biology's view of intergenerational conflict has major implications for family dynamics but has largely been ignored.

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